Departmental News
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Recent Department News
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Rowan ChE @2024 Commencement
Congratulations to all our Rowan University Chemical Engineering graduates of 2024, and best wishes to your future endeavors!
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Rowan ChE students win awards!
Congratulations to our Rowan Chemical Engineering students on receiving department, college, and university awards!
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Rowan ChE faculty win awards!
Congratulations to our Rowan Chemical Engineering faculty on receiving department, college, and university awards!
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Dr. Kirti Yenkie receives the NSF CAREER Award!
Dr. Kirti Yenkie receives the NSF CAREER Award to design more environmentally sustainable process systems using mathematical modeling and AI tools.
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Dr. Gerard Capellades receives the NSF CAREER Award!
Dr. Gerard Capellades receives the NSF CAREER Award to pursue work in understanding pharmaceutical crystal impurities.
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Dr. Jun Hee Jang receives the ACS Early Career Bridge Grant!
Dr. Jun Hee Jang receives the ACS Early Career Postdoctoral-Faculty Bridge grant to jumpstart sustainability research & teaching.
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Rowan ChE joins MACH2 on clean hydrogen initiatives!
Dr. Ken Lau and Rowan ChE join the Mid-Atlantic Clean Hydrogen (MACH2) Hub on clean H2 research and workforce development.
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ChE faculty partner with battery company on DOE grant!
Drs. Ken Lau and Joe Stanzione team up with battery company, HiT Nano, to develop high performance cathode materials.
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ChE faculty partner with battery companies on DoD STTR grant!
Drs. Ken Lau and Joe Stanzione partner with battery companies to pursue high voltage cathodes in all solid-state batteries.
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New! Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty Opening
Rowan University Chemical Engineering invites applicants for an open-rank tenured or tenure-track faculty position in the broad areas related to Sustainability.
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Rowan ChE PhD student wins scholarship award!
Swapana Jerpoth receives a 2023 scholarship award from the STLE Philadelphia Section for her research in sustainability.
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Rowan ChE undergraduates win research poster awards!
Four of our ChE undergraduate students win poster awards for their engineering clinic research at the 2023 AIChE Annual Meeting.
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Rowan Chemical Engineering welcomes new faculty
Our department welcomes two new Chemical Engineering faculty!
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Rowan ChE Professor hosts Crystallization Workshop
Dr. Gerard Capellades hosts Crystallization Workshop, bringing together nearly 30 attendees from academia and industry.
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Engineering students address climate change
Rowan engineering students mentored by our ChE faculty are addressing climate change and sustainability issues.
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AMMI hosts summer research symposium
AMMI, one of Rowan's major research centers, recently hosted a summer research symposium on advanced and sustainable materials & processing.
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ChE Professor named Engineering Unleashed Fellow
Dr. Gerard Capellades is selected as a 2023 Engineering Unleashed Fellow of the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN).
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ChE Professor receives NJDEP Grant
Dr. Joe Stanzione receives an NJDEP grant to make local glass recycling more sustainable.
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ChE Professor receives NSF Grant
Dr. Gerard Capellades receives an NSF research grant to study impurities in pharmaceutical crystals.
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Industrial Advisory Board
Read more about our ChE Industrial Advisory Board members and why they chose Rowan ChE.
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ChE Graduates 2023!
Congratulations to our ChE graduates of 2023!
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2023 ChE Department Annual Awards
Rowan Chemical Engineering students, faculty and alum receive recognition from our department for their scholarly achievements and exemplary service!
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2023 AIChE DVS Academic Awards
Our chemical engineering students and faculty win awards at the 2023 AIChE DVS Academic Awards Ceremony held at Villanova University.
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Kickoff Event
Our kickoff event for our Chemical Engineering Professional Development Series will be a panel discussion from six chemical engineering professionals from academia and industry.
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ChE Team wins EPA grant
Rowan Chemical Engineering team receives nearly $315K funding from the US EPA Pollution Prevention Program to find greener, more sustainable chemicals.
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Another EPA grant
Rowan Chemical Engineering team receives another US EPA Pollution Prevention grant of over $361K to assist the region in improving decision-making and reducing waste in petrochemical-related industries.
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2022 AIChE Awards
Dr. Kirti Yenkie and her students won awards at this year's AIChE Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Rowan@AIChE2022
This year our department had a strong presence at the 2022 AIChE Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona.